News from our newspaper (Reporter Zhu Hanbin, Correspondent Zhou Fei) Tian Lu and Liu Leru, Ph.D. students of the Energy Plant Research Group of the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the guidance of their supervisors, Associate Researcher Chen Yaping and Resear...

　　Ageing is an inevitable natural phenomenon characterized by physiological function deterioration and cell homeostasis disorder. The Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases are the common neurological disorders, which have become a global social problem among ageing population. Increasing atte...

　　Histone replacement during chromatin-remodeling plays a key role in transcriptional regulation. Replacing their canonical counterparts by histone variants often leads to gene expression changes in eukaryotes, which is one of the most important biological responses to stresses caused by temp...

　　How evolutionary forces shape patterns of genetic diversity within species and divergence between species is a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. The neutral theory of molecular evolution states that most polymorphisms within species are generally neutral and under mutation-drift ...

　　Soil organic carbon (SOC) turnover is strongly influenced by substrate and nutrient availability, especially nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). Although many short-term N and P addition experiments have investigated the relationship between nutrient availability and soil organic matter (SOM) m...